Erika-Shaye Gair was born on December 12, 1998 in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada. She started her acting career doing commercials at the age of four. She has been in thirteen commercials. Four of these have been as principal roles. Her first film and TV role was in a made for TV pilot movie production called Kat Plus One. She was with her eight year old brother, Luke Gair, in this movie. Her breakthrough has been the three latest speaking and principal roles in movies that she did recently. As "Jenny" in the movie _Hellion (2006/I)_ with Josh Holloway; as "five-year-old Cassie", in the movie _R.V. (2006)_ with 'Robin Williams' as her father; and as "Rowan" in the movie The Wicker Man (2006) as the daughter of 'Nicholas Cage'. She was "Chloe" in the T.V. Movie of the week in Time and Again with 'Brooke Burns' as her mother. In the Movie of the Week called Smokejumpers, she was the niece of 'Brooke Burns'. She appeared with her brother, Luke Gair, as a twin child of 'Kim Basinger' in the feature movie While She Was Out. She has appeared twice as "Young Kara" in the T.V. series Battlestar Galactica. She is in her second season of performing three principal voices as "Shiny, Annie and Cory" in the hit children's animated program called Dinosaur Train.
